entertake

English

Etymology

From enter- +‎ take, after French entreprendre.

Verb

entertake (third-person singular simple present entertakes, present participle entertaking, simple past entertook, past participle entertaken)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To entertain; to receive.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.

Synonyms

• onfang